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How to Set up Email Accounts in Outlook

Outlook is the single most popular email client--by which we mean a standalone email program, rather than a browser-based email service like gmail. One key advantage of Outlook is the ability to configure it to send and receive multiple email accounts and different kinds of email (like webmail, POP, and IMAP) from one unified inbox.

To alleviate any potential confusion, Outlook is not one the same as Outlook.com, despite the similarity in names. Outlook.com, successor to Microsoft's Hotmail, is a free webmail service that you access from a web browser, not entirely unlike Gmail.

Ready to get started? There are two ways to set up email in Outlook: Automatic setup and manual setup. Here's the lowdown on each.

Automatic setup

The Android and iOS versions of Outlook provide automatic setup for all of their supported email systems.

In Outlook for Mac 2011, you can set up either an Exchange-based or Office 365 mail account automatically, simply by typing in your email address and password.

Using Outlook for Mac 2016, enter your email address and password to automatically add accounts such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail Plus, Comcast and AOL.

You'll encounter more limitations, though, for automatic setup of email accounts in Outlook for Windows. To perform automatic setup of Internet email accounts in Outlook 2010 for Windows, click the Fix it button, click Run in the File Download dialog box, and then follow the steps in the Fix it wizard to automatically set up the account.

If you're using a free Internet mail account, you might receive the error message, "Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: full IMAP support is NOT enabled for this account." If so, then move on to setup process and select a POP3 account.

In Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016, automatic setup will not work for POP or IMAP accounts.

Here's how to find out whether automatic setup will work with other mail accounts. First, choose the File tab in Outlook 20113 or 2016. Select Account Information, and then Add Account.

Screenshot - Outlook - Add Account

On the Auto Account Setup page, type in your name, email address, and password, and then choose Next. Then choose Finish.

Generally speaking, if automatic setup doesn't work in Outlook 2013 or 2016 for Windows, you should then choose manual setup or additional server types to enter your settings manually.

However, in the Windows edition of Outlook 2016, you can't use the manual setup type for either Exchange or Office 365. Outlook 2016 does include In those instances, if automatic setup fails, Microsoft suggests that you contact either your Exchange administrator or the Microsoft Answer desk for help.